julianbrost [1] filed a deletion request for mkpasswd [2]: The standard whois package now also includes the mkpasswd binary: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit- packages/commit/deda6776e206c91c37100be01b67c7f2a22282a5 So this package is now obsolete (and even conflicts with extra/whois). [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/julianbrost/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/mkpasswd/